Yuri Takhteyev Email & Phone Number

Palo Alto, CA, US

Toronto, ON, CA

Leveraging my research at U of T and experience building a talent destination, I developed an idea for a product to help remote workers build stronger relationships at work through large scale interactive virtual events. After finding a co-founder who took on the business aspects of the venture, my focus shifted to building and leading the development.

Toronto, Ontario, CA

In my time at Wealthsimple I worked on expanding the Engineering team, growing it from 95 to 120 people, adding a number of senior technical leaders, including two engineering directors and two staff engineers. Working with other leaders, I helped Wealthsimple move to a lighter-weight continuous planning process and a verticalized R&D model, with teams.

Toronto, Ontario, CA

I joined Rangle.io when it had two people (one joined the day before me), taking responsibility for technology and later other aspects of project delivery. I worked to build Rangle’s 150+ person strong delivery team nearly from scratch, personally interviewing the overwhelming majority of the first 100 team members. I set technology direction, implemented.

Toronto, Ontario, CA

I joined University of Toronto for a 3 year position in the rank of an Assistant Professor after finishing my Ph.D. at Berkeley. During my time at the University I taught hundreds of students, which included courses on database design, information management, history of information technology, and open source software development. I also published a number.

Berkeley, CA, US

During my time at Berkeley I was involved in a number of research projects on topics lying at the intersection of information technology and social science. My dissertation research project explored formation of global ties in software industry through an ethnography of software developers working in Brazil. Other research projects looked at early use of.

New York, NY, US

I joined AOL Time Warner through an acquisition of a speech technology startup Quack.com. I led a team that developed tools for building speech solutions on top of Quack’s platform. This included a tool for designing call flow dialogs, a suite of tools for managing production of recorded prompts, analysis tools for production applications, and others..

(This is the same job as AOL, since Quack.com was bought by AOL.)

As a member of CSLI's Computational Semantics Laboratory, I worked on two research projects that aimed to expand what could be done with conversational / natural language interfaces, i.e., where a person interacts with a computer just by speaking. (A lot like Siri, but in the 1990s.) The first project involved setting up a kiosk where library users could.

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Science

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Symbolic Systems

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Information Management And Systems